08:04 pm - Happy V Day!And for that day, as something special I ran the truck over about 30 miles of ice. I finally made it out of the Portland area, which I had sat in for three days due to chain laws and accidents on i84 both Tuesday and Wednesday. Which reminds me. I need to start looking for loads outta here picking up around Saturday or so. Tomorrow I deliver, and then do a buncha other stuff.

Get this trailer in for an overdue inspection.

Hopefully pick up a hood mirror mount at a nearby Rush Truck Centers.

Get the truck washed.

Groceries.

Maybe see if there's somewhere nearby I can grab a couple of hard drive enclosures too.

10:54 pm - All in allA fairly accomplished time at home. Just about everything on the business list got done. Really, even the forms for converting our business from a simple partnership to an LLC are ready to be mailed off, along with a $100 payment. And since we need to renew come late March anyway...bam, perfect timing that way.

For the home front, got the faucet and the stove burner fixed/replaced.

Now the snow's settled in, and getting out of her tomorrow could prove an adventure, but after crawling through WY in the wind over potentially icy roads, no biggie there now. Jeez.Current Location:McMinnville, ORCurrent Mood:accomplishedCurrent Music: typing fingers

11:35 pm - I've got your fricking tax cut right here!Okay. More or less the final numbers have been entered into Turbotax. I went back through, corrected mistakes, updated figures...and now we owe $2765 to the feds. That's not the part that cheeses me off though.

Turbotax 2018 has a lovely little two year comparison report it's showing me right now, including total income, deductions, taxable income, and taxes owed. Now from 2017 to 2018 our taxable income basically doubled, which is a good thing, because it means we made more money, although business-wise our revenue really only went up by 50 percent, so that's suspicious right there.

Now the real kicker. The federal taxes we owed TRIPLED from the previous year. Yeah, nice cut there guys! More like a kick in the nuts. We can still claim per diem, but now it's a deduction from income, not from taxes owed which is a huge difference.

Thank the gods we're not company drivers, for they lost that deduction altogether, for a REAL kick in the shorts, even with the increase in the standard deduction.Current Location:McMinnville, ORCurrent Mood:angry

08:57 pm - Slogging alongI closed out January today at least. So that's something. In fact on the business end pretty much everything is done, except actually setting up the LLC. I found Publication 3402, which states that an LLC can be taxed as a simple partnership, which is what we're doing now. Though if I send in uh, form uhhhh...what's that number again? Yeah. Form 2553 the LLC will then be taxed the same as an S corporation. Still I think for tax purposes we should eventually wind up with a full on S corp. I'm thinking of visiting the local chamber of commerce to investigate this further.

But tomorrow looks more like more work on the home front, specifically the dripping sink. We're probably best off just replacing the damn thing, but man they left NO room to work underneath. It's almost like I'd have to take the whole flipping sink out just to replace that faucet. URK.Current Location:McMinnville, ORCurrent Mood:nervous

12:14 pm - One way to find out.This whole Trump tax bill has me curious about whether I actually fared better or worse. So this idea hit me. Plug 2017's numbers into 2018 Turbotax and see what happens. My suspicion is I'd wind up owing more since Per Diem no longer counts as a deduction. But let's wait for the final verdict on that one. I mean, I still have all those numbers, and it's not too hard to plug them right back in.Current Location:McMinnville, ORCurrent Mood:busy

11:59 am - Further ProgressOkay, I figured out to set up an LLC within Oregon, we'd just need to send in two forms, one to dissolve the DBA that we're currently doing business under, and one to file for the new LLC. However I need to figure out tax filings, schedules, and whatnot for an LLC before I go and sign up. I figure irs.gov would be the place to find such info, and if not, then oregon.gov. I doubt it's that much more complicated, since we have no employees at this time.

Also I've booked the first load, and called about a second, which I'm sort of nervous about since the first load delivers to ID, which isn't a bustling hub of outgoing freight, so any load going out of there is pretty much a good load. I might try calling them again in about an hour if I get no answer to the voicemail I left.

Also in the meantime, I'm starting to enter final figures into the taxes. I updated the revenue figure, which took us from a $197 refund to owning nearly $1200. But I'm not done yet, so I'm expecting that figure to go lower. We did have more than that put back in the tax fund, so if we do wind up owing, we shouldn't have to dip into anything else.Current Location:McMinnville, ORCurrent Mood:busy

Reimbursements had to be accounted for as such. Landstar lists them as refunds.

Things deducted out of the income section needed to be accounted for as such. So I updated those when needed.

After all that updating, Our 1099-MISC and Profit Gauges agree to the penny. So THAT much is good. Now I just have to get the updated figures into Turbotax.Current Location:McMinnville, ORCurrent Mood:busy

03:55 pm - New year, new...stuffWell after nearly a two month hiatus again, our faithful(*snort*) dragon is back at it once again. Most of it's been taken up by solo driving across country of course. Though lucky for me, I seemed to dodge the snow that gripped most of the country, and got home right just before the record cold swept through the upper Midwest US. I had to mush through some heavy winds in WY(40+mph gusts), or else I would have sat the whole weekend waiting on 60mph winds to die down sometime last Monday 1/28, the day I delivered my last load before going home. Neat. Never actually delivered to an oil refinery before, so you can imagine the security measures put in place to avoid a big BOOM.

Today I got to involve myself in set creation for a play that my mate will have a singing/dancing part in, "The Addams Family" musical. So it'll be an extra measure of satisfaction knowing part of that set I had a hand in creating.

Now that I'm home, there's some firsts to take care of this week.

Close out January. The bank statement won't be in till Monday I'm guessing, so that's the earliest I can take care of that.

Call the Oregon Secretary of State's office, because we need to change our operation from a simple partnership to an official LLC, and from there convert it to an S corporation for tax savings purposes. The LLC part probably isn't that hard I would bet, since we already have our DBA and our Tax ID number. It's just a matter of conversion, or at least I hope the conversion is simple.

Call up Landstar, and dispute the amount they put down on our 1099-MISC. So far, adding up all my settlements together totals about $6000 less than what they put down. So I'm not sure where the discrepancy is coming from. It's not reimbursements. We don't have any.

Of course, start booking loads for when I got back out again, starting sometime most likely 2-11, and finishing towards the end of March.

My mate doesn't want me running across WY again at this time of year. I could run regional, but I'd wind up making a lot less if I did. And frankly, I only did so twice last time out. Once going out. Once coming back, which is what I'd do again.

So how are all of you out there? Doing well I hope.

Oh! And a bit of interesting sports news. I've started listening to the Flyers again, just in time for them to start a seven game win streak.

Maybe I'm a jinx for one team, and good luck for another? Weird.Current Location:McMinnville, ORCurrent Mood:busyCurrent Music: The sound of two hands typing.

The upshot of this little bugaboo is that the internet router is physically located on the other side of the house. This room has(or had, more on that in a moment), two desktops with NO wifi capability. And I doubt I could run less than a 100ft CAT5 cable from one end of the house to the other. So what to do?

First attempt was to try and reconfigure the old router into a repeater, which after searching around and finally getting to log into its control panel, I found I had no option for. Boo! So it's now a fancy paperweight. In fact I have two of them now, though I could keep this one around in case the other one fails. In fact, I should log into it as well and change the network name and password. It's way too klunky to remember at all.

So...aha! I have this old C-Crane wifi antenna, which I plugged into a USB port on the print server. In fact, theonly remaining port. Oy. I knew Ubuntu would recognize it, since I used it that way before. Brought it up, and BAM! Recognized instantly and was able to log on to the wifi router. Good, so I got one desktop going. Now the other one. Which meant setting up the ethernet port as a bridge.

Ubuntu does have a way to do this under Editing connections. This is the order I did it in.

Open edit connections by left clicking on the network icon, and clicking on Edit connections.

Once that little window is up, click on the ethernet connection, and delete it. Here it's clicking on the minus sign in the lower left corner, and confirming that's what needs to be done.

Right next to it, click the plus sign, which is to add a new connection.

From the pop up window, select Bridge then click create.

When editing the bridge comes up, Click on ADD for bridged connections, then Ethernet for type.

On the Device drop down list, select the ethernet interface to use. It will have both the name and MAC address listed. Click Save.

select the IPV4 Settings tab, and select "Shared to other computers" for Method. This is an important detail that's NOT documented anywhere I saw. Again, click Save.

Now it should be set up.

So that was fun. Now it's back to getting that media box ready to go. I have a DVD drive and a wireless card ready for it, but haven't installed them yet. That's the next step.

In other news, there's still plenty else to do.

Work on this year's Xmas card. That's tomorrow.

Close out November.

Finish epoxying Isis back together. All she needs are the small pieces I found. That will mean the end of ALL epoxying till something else gets broken.

Updating, installing, yadda yadda yadda.

Finish up laundry for truck.

Pack truck, yadda yadda yadda

I'm hoping to be back on the road by this weekend, with the kitties in the truck this time.Current Location:McMinnville, ORCurrent Mood:busy

12:22 pm - Thanksgiving PrepThis activity always seems like a fight to the finish with me. I'm busy looking up a chocolate espresso cheesecake recipe, and of course the one I always used isn't showing!

Then...hooray! I made a wild guess and went directly to a site I seem to gravitate towards, Epicurious. Yes, I'm still old school and typed that link out by hand, html tags included. Even so, there's STILL so much prepwork to get accomplished, even if the house is already almost completely cleaned, save for the bathroom off the dining room...WHICH...

We had put this bathroom out of service due to leakages, but since root had been cleared out of the main outlet leading from the house, all seems to be well now? We're gonna give it a test. My suspicion is the wax seals on both toilets have probably broken, and need fixing that way. The plumber who cleared out the roots says part of the sewer line leading from our house needs to be rerouted away from those roots. I don't know when we'll do that, probably before the twelve months he said this cleaning job would hold out ends.

But in the meantime:

Vacuum the truck and get it to the repair shop. While we're there, pay the bill from the last time as they never gave us an invoice.

Epoxy the figures that still need it. This is a holdover from the last time I was home.

Repair the bathroom light fixture that's gone out. Another holdover.

Get to BiMart and investigate large Thanksgiving tables. I seem to have commandeered the one we normally use for music projects.

In other news, I won another i5 desktop from Shopgoodwill. Thing of it is it's missing the side cover. I did fine a replacement...for $230, which is more than what I paid for it AND everything else I needed to get it going (new video card and hard drive). It's also missing the DVD drive, but I'll look for one of those at the local Goodwill, and if it's not there, no biggie. I usually use memory sticks now for installation of various OSes and such anyway. It makes the job go a LOT quicker.Current Location:McMinnville, ORCurrent Mood:rushedCurrent Music: Fist banging Mania!

10:31 pm - The Dual Boot WonderWith tax season coming up, it's getting imperative that I have one laptop capable of running Windows(yuck), since Turbotax comes only in Winduhs/Mac flavors.

I did see the IRS now has fillable PDF tax forms, which I could do with any OS, but with running my own business and all that, I'm just lazy and will go with Turbotax again this year, which means I need a laptop running Windows since I travel round the country.

I've been pursuing several strategies, so far without success. I wanted to get really sneaky and install Winduhs on a removable USB drive, for a laptop whose default OS would be Ubuntu. Tried that, but nope. Winduhs dun like that. So I have a few remaining options.

Try and cram both Windows and Ubuntu onto the same hard drive. Since the max capacity I've seen is 1tb for laptop drives...that makes me a little nervous as far as storage goes.

Wait and buy a 512gb PCIe SSD drive which would go into the new i5, THEN migrate or install Winduhs clean onto that, leaving the 1tb drive free for Ubuntu. I wouldn't need much capacity for Winduhs to run, since I'm storing all relevant user data onto an external drive anyway. One drawback is the cheapest drive of this kind I've seen is $175, spendy for a laptop I got new for $449. The second drawback is the new laptop has NO removable panels to get at the hard drive, RAM, or anything! You have to unscrew the entire bottom panel, which also means taking off the two rubber strips used as feet to get at the screws underneath, and in the process most likely destroying them.

On a lark, I took a peek into the Toshiba P875, and lo and behold, a bay for a 2nd hard drive! I can leave Ubuntu alone on the drive in there now, and install Winduhs onto the 2nd one. Now Winduhs' boot manager may blow out GRUB and leave me having to repair it to get a fully functioning dual boot system, but it's a small price to pay. I just need a hard drive caddy, which looks to cost about $20, and I have three unused laptop drives just sitting round, waiting to be used, so no cost to me there.

Obviously, I'm the most excited about Option 3. It's low cost and leaves Ubuntu fully in charge of a 1tb drive. I won't actually be able to install the 2nd drive till I get back for Thanksgiving as the caddy won't get to my house till after I leave back on the road, but I can wait. I've managed a good long time on Ubuntu alone, I can wait a few weeks longer, and tax time isn't for a couple more months anyway.Current Location:McMinnville, ORCurrent Mood:geeky

To a burglarized house!

Seems that what was mainly taken was my mate's jewelry, and several small stashes of coins for various purposes.

They took the board that had the fifty state quarters we had started all the way back in 1999. Can you believe that? A whole $12.50. The small stash of bicentennial quarters(1976), and a two dollar bill, gone. Even the coins we were saving up to buy a Djehuty(Thoth) statue, gone. A bit of irony is involved in that one, but I'll tell you later.

What's kinda odd is that the twelve small fairy statuettes I had representing the twelve signs of the zodiac had been moved. They took a peek at the mixing board underneath the case they had been sitting on, but the board's still there, and all twelve fairies are still intact. Not even a paintchip far as I can tell. I'm just glad I kept my personal fund in the truck, because that had more cash than all the cash that was taken combined.

So of course as soon as we discovered this we contacted McMinnville's finest, who dispatched an officer to our door. So now what we need to do is tally up a list of what was stolen, and if we can add any photographs or other evidence we can dig up of ownership. They took a silverware set, which is also kind of amusing because it was stainless steel, and not worth much.

I think what pisses me off the most is we also lost a honking huge amber necklace she bought back around 2005 for $800. Oddly, we lost no music equipment. All instruments, cords, amps, PA's and everything else is still here. Nice that way.

So...the cleanup. I took most of today to clear out the computer room. I find it funny they had packed up the three laptops slated for Freegeek, none of which work and then left them there. I recycled a fuckton of paper. I think our can out on the side holds about 45 gallons or so, and it's almost filled now. So many boxes, old bills, old statements and everything to go. Poof. Some stuff of course will go to shredding, since the info upon it is still relevant and sensitive. But that was only a small cardboard box full. The room still needs to be smudged, but after that I'm done.Current Location:McMinnville, ORCurrent Mood:exhaustedCurrent Music: Switchblade Symphony - "Wallflower"

The first card I drew was the Nine of Bats(swords). This card is drawn again similar to the Rider-Waite version, where there's a female figure sitting up in bed, her face covered by her hands. She may be weeping into them. But in this deck the cat seems to be sitting on her lap, one paw raised as if to comfort, while nine bats fly around the room above her.

Some liken this card to the Sephiroth of Binah, where the concept of structure is introduced, as one of the symbols of Binah is a woman sitting on a throne with her face in her hands and weeping, as she knows the consequences.

One could go with the obvious and say this is a card of sorrow and of reflection, where it becomes plain the mistakes one made in life, as well as the alternative outcomes of "what if I did X instead". But you can't really go back and 'fix' the past, or can you? In a way, The entity Seth says you can, that the past isn't really as fixed as we would lead ourselves to believe, and we don't always remember the best or most relevant bits, and other bits come into focus based on our moods.

Then again, having nine bats flying around in your room would make most unhappy, wouldn't it?

So. I didn't really want to finish all this card drawing on a note like that, and so I drew one more, and got The Emperor. That looked like a good one to finish it up! It's Frankenstein's Monster sitting on the throne with the symbol of Jupiter carved into it, with the ankh-like scepter and all a brain sitting in a flask and all.

The Emperor is a card of taking what you've gotten and weeding through it, removing what doesn't work, pruning away so that the fecundity of the Empress before him can grow with purpose and direction. Of course, there's also the danger of the subject devolving into egomania, which leads to the next Major Arcana card, the Hierophant, who gives the spiritual impetus for the pruning work.Current Location:Laramie, WYCurrent Mood:busy

02:17 pm - Day NineAnd on this day, another major trump was born. I drew The Hanged Man. This one is drawn quite similar to the Rider-Waite version, with the main figure suspended by a rope tied round one ankle, leaving him to dangle upside down. However here the figure is a scarecrow, which is fitting.

In either case, It speaks of delays, perhaps long ones, but not of a nervous or anxious nature. Sometimes delays are even necessary in the bigger process of things.Current Location:Tacoma, WACurrent Mood:contemplative

03:26 pm - Day EightAnd now for something completely different. For today I drew the ten of Bats(swords). This depicts a prone and likely sleeping redheaded woman with ten bats hovering above her. This is somewhat of a departure from the Rider-Waite deck. In that one, a face down figure is pierced by the ten swords. Since bats don't really pierce that I know of, they had to come up with something different.

What's interesting to note is that the suit of swords typically refers to thought processes or mental conditions. But in the Halloween deck, one is tempted to say the woman has gone beyond mere ordinary thought, with sleep considered an altered state, or perhaps she's in a trance of some kind.

I would say here it depicts a mental breakthrough, and achievement of a higher state of mind if you will.Current Location:The Dalles, ORCurrent Mood:contemplative

12:31 pm - Day SevenWell this is interesting! For today I once again drew the Lovers. So that's two cards that have shown up twice now. I don't think there's enough days left for them all to show up twice though.

And in other news, it seems the wind tunnel through WY is picking up again for the season. We're stopped in Cheyenne with a light trailer due to high winds across the plateau between Cheyenne and Laramie. If we could get to Laramie, US287W would get us around and the wind speeds there seem manageable.

It also looks like we'll be staying on this dedicated account till near the end of this month at least. The other account seems to have freight only one way, from Atlanta to Kent, WA. So we'd have to find our own way back. Now if we had that part figured out already, no problem. But we don't, and we have a feeling for all the trouble of setting it up it'd be a wash at the end of it all. So...yeah.

The main figure of this card is a somewhat Nosferatu-like vampire, summoning a man, woman, and child up from their graves. Upon two of the gravestones are written "Awaken Sleeper" and "Rise".

I vaguely remembered writing a poem about this card, as Judgement is on the living as well as the dead. As in what you do in life affects your afterlife. I mean, I can already feel this thing is affecting my own life in ways I can even measure yet, and may not until it's done and performed.Current Location:Boonville, MOCurrent Mood: amazedCurrent Music: Genesis - Cul de Sac

Yesterday I drew The Lovers. Now in the Halloween Tarot this card, in fact this whole deck can be on the whimsical side. But here the card depicts a woman sitting up in her bed, reading through what look like love letters. However Dracula, or at least some vampire is shown coming in through the window. She sees him, and her expression seems...simply calm. She seems neither happy nor afraid to see him, maybe even slightly annoyed, as if he were interrupting. Perhaps there is some sort of attraction between them, though he seems to show it more. It might even allude to one of those forbidden loves, socially frowned upon.

Hmmmm, as I typed this, Nebt-Het popped into my mind. She too is quite attractive, even with the knowledge that such an attraction will lead you to your doom. Still, she is a beloved of mine.

And today's card, The Magician! So that makes two major trumps in a row as well. The magician in this deck looks somewhat like Gomez Addams, though dressed more in stage magician's garb of coat and tails, vest and such. He's pulling a white rabbit out of a hat with the symbols of the four minor suits (bats, ghosts, pumpkins, and imps) staged around him. It talks about being able to use the powers of all the suits to one's own advantage towards their goal.

So today also marks the halfway point. Five cards drawn, five to go.Current Location:Fairburn, GACurrent Mood:contemplative

05:04 pm - Card drawing day threeOkay, it wasn't the Eight of Ghosts this time. For day three, I drew the Ace of Pumpkins(pentacles).

So, new beginnings in the physical realm? This certainly makes sense, as I'm still gathering my thoughts and notes on this ritual.Current Location:Newnan, GACurrent Mood:contemplativeCurrent Music: Philadelphia Phillies fizzling out

As far as writing the actual ritual goes, I do have ideas about certain parts of it at least.

The setting

I might have stated this before, but it's taking place in an unused horse stable. There's a smaller part off to one side. Cover the open parts with black cloth, and there's your psychomantium to contact one's ancestors.

White cloth hangs down over one side, which performs the dual role of dividing off a smaller backstage area if you will from the main arena, as well as providing a projector screen. The main area itself will have straw covering the ground, and a few heaters at strategic spots if one gets too chilled, since after all late October in western Oregon is chilly and damp. Then again, it seems like Samhain should take place in the damp chill. Tombstones with flat tops will occupy some of the floorspace, placed in neat rows. The flat tops will be explained later. At the back are some refreshments and other items that might be needed if I see that's necessary.

Now articles for participants to bring.

Appropriate ritual attire.

lawn or other outdoor chairs for sitting.

Pictures and other memorabilia of the participant's family and friends. This will be placed upon the tombstones if possible, or if too large at the base of them.

Ritual actors and officers

The main guide, dressed as a raven.

East officer, dressed as a bat.

South officer, dressed as an imp. If she's tall, curvy, and a redhead to go with that red catsuit and makeup, all the better.

West officer, dressed as a ghost.

North officer, either dressed as a pumpkin or carrying one.

So far, I have an intro and the calling of the quarters in mind. There were other actors, and a soundtrack that I may or may not include.

11:32 pm - One DreamAnd one dream involving a tornado headed directly for the dwelling I inhabited at the time. Somehow I came out unscathed, though I can't quite remember if the house did as well or what.Current Location:McMinnville, ORCurrent Mood:sadCurrent Music: Blume - "Western Rust"

12:06 pm - I did find a way.Oh, and here's the latest Opera update. It WILL sync thumbnails, but what you have to do is...

Login to sync.opera.com Do this from a comp that already has everything the way you want, bookmarks, thumbnails, and all.

Hit the button that says "Reset Sync Data"

It will tell you what that does, and ask you to confirm. Hit "yes, reset sync data"

It will log out all the other machines, and take that one as the master.

Even though I didn't do it, it's probably a good idea before logging in on a machine you want synced to simply erase all the bookmarks before logging back in, though you may want to back them up, juuust in case everything gets blown out everywhere. Oy.

11:57 am - First of many - AntimatterOkay, I've been away from this blog too long once again, and it's finally time to catch up on some things that have been on my mind and what I've been up to. I'll try to chop it all up into separate posts for easier digestion, or indigestion as the case may be.

Antimatter's been an item on my mind more than it should be recently. We all know that antimatter has the opposite charge and spin of matter, antiprotons, positrons, and antineutrons(Yes, these are a thing). But what about all the other properties? We seem to assume they're all the same. What if that's false?

For instance, perhaps the values of the strong and weak force are switched in antimatter, just like spin and charge are. This would explain the lack of atoms or molecules composed purely of antimatter. The 'weak' force would burst them apart as soon as they formed.

And what of electromagnetism and gravity? Would those values be switched as well? This I kind of doubt since I'm fairly certain the charge values for particles and antiparticles are the same. So, who knows. Mostly just speculation at this point.

Though while I'm here, I've also puzzled about the relationship between electromagnetism and gravity. It's pretty common knowledge that electromagnetism works primarily as a force of attraction between two masses. However when both bodies have the same amount and polarity of charge, it acts as a force of repulsion.

If gravity really is the true opposite of electromagnetism, what are the conditions under which it too acts as a force of repulsion?Current Location:The Dalles, ORCurrent Mood:curious

09:52 pm - Ow, jeez, and OMFGSo, last Saturday we got home. Yay. And on the way in we took the truck to the Aurora, OR TA to get our Landstar 120 day inspection. It passed no problem there. A bigger yay. However when I got out into the bay to sign paperwork, my foot slipped on some oil coated cement. My right foot slid left, and down I went. OW. Nothing seriously damaged. My right knee took a scrape, and I think I landed just under my right armpit, because the musculature there is still sore, though not as sore as at first. My right middle finger also felt a little off, as if a tendon had been pulled slightly, which it probably had.

Now that it's home, we still need to get it to the mechanic for an oil change and some other work like replacing the tie rod ends. It's always something, and the blower's still not working correctly. Later on, we'll head down to Salem to get the drive tires replaced. They're still legal, but not by much any more, and it's been over two years. We'd like to upgrade this time to Michelin Energy XDA or something like that? Something with a stiffer sidewall which will extend the life of the tire further still.

In computer land, it looks like the Toshiba 775 will be out of the shop tomorrow. What? It still wasn't ready when I checked yesterday. There seems to be some kind of issue with the touchpad, but I'm thinking this may be a software rather than a hardware issue. I may have to go down there with a live filesystem version of Ubuntu, just to see for sure.

Now for upcoming events. This Saturday is the adult prom in town. And yes, we're going! I may or may not be brave enough to show you what I look like in a white dinner jacket, white pants, green vest and bowtie, black shoes, and a black hat. But that's what I bought when I was last in Portland. The mate has a green sequin dress I bought for her years ago, and she still looks OMFG in it.

Then after this it's on a plane, and for the first time since my honeymoon I'll be outside the U.S.. I'll be down in Honduras for a week, most likely laying a bit low, or at least trying not to make too many waves. My spanish is still terrible, at least what I can speak. I'm one of those who can understand it more than I can speak it.

Then it'll be time to pack up and get back on the road once more. Oy. There's a bit more coming, maybe. I dunno yet.Current Location:McMinnville, ORCurrent Mood: overwhelmed